EVERGREEN HUCKLEBERRY : Tasty Fruit Related to Blueberries - Weird Fruit Explorer

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Episode 453: Evergreen Huckleberry - Weird Fruit Explorer
Location: North America (Grown in Washington)
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@davids.5083 4 года назад

Here in northern Illinois we have the locally rare black huckleberry, which is not in the genus vaccinium, but rather in gaylussacia. I've yet to locate one, but it's high on my bucket list of fruit to forage.

@WeirdExplorer 4 года назад

Oh cool! I haven't heard of that one.

@thatguy04444 4 года назад

@@WeirdExplorer The New Jersey Pine Barrens have lots of wild Gaylussacia, as well as wild blueberries and cranberries. Jersey would be an easy trip for you down from NYC.

@sazji 4 года назад

If you’re ever in the Northwest in the fall, there are several different huckleberries here on either side of the Cascades. Evergreen huckleberries grow on a fairly tall evergreen bush that can make almost impenetrable thickets. The fruit is in big clusters that make them easy to pick, and there are some horticultural selections with really dense heavy clusters. But you have to be careful of tiny stink bugs that may be lurking in them before you chow down! Red huckleberries are beautiful and often grow on rotting lots and stumps. On the east side of the Cascades there’s another that’s closer to a blueberry but more intensely flavored and a little more tart; it grows in more open areas ok low plants.

@WeirdExplorer 4 года назад

I'll have to go on a foraging trip out that way sometime. so many berries...

@sazji 4 года назад

Weird Explorer Yes! Salmonberries will be ripe in a month or so. Probably not so easy to mail. Would have to be fedexed

@ornokur6315 4 года назад

Those stink bugs are my least favorite part of foraging. They don't smell as bad as the ones from the eastern U.S. I've encountered,but they still smell pretty bad.

@sazji 4 года назад

Odeun Yep! I am careful but sometimes manage to get some of the funk when I’m picking bkackberries. The bug is usually long gone.

@cytr5 4 года назад

@@WeirdExplorer Pike place is the best Farmer's market in the US. Good for video too. I've had Mackinaws when I lived up there, and Rainier cherries are super tasty. There's a cool permaculture farm on one of the islands. Edit: devil's club is unique but endangered a series on regional unique food for the USA would be awesome Edit2: they also have much better Apple etc variety up there. I don't really eat the apples where I live because they don't usually have my favorite varieties

@JessHull 4 года назад

I just realized while eating a date this morning that I when I eat a piece of fruit I tend to do a little Jared-esque style review in my head silently...lol.

@fredriks5090 4 года назад

My favorite kind of blueberry is those found growing wild in Scandinavian acidic forest/mountain soil. Those big ones grown in poland and morocco doesn't taste the same and are often green inside.

@Toatrex 4 года назад

Those are bilberries. He mentioned he found in Finland in this episode. And I think those with green insides is American blueberries.

@r.awilliams9815 4 года назад

What makes picking huckleberries so interesting is the fact that bears love them even more than we do, and your best chance to encounter a black bear up close and personal is by picking berries in their patch. Such encounters almost never result in injury, rather human and bear scare the crap out of each other and both run like hell, hopefully in different directions. You'd be *amazed* at how hard a bear is to see until he's right there in front of you.

@brandon9172 3 года назад

Not just bears, but deers as well. I've seen em so many times while picking these berries.

@emilywarner7707 4 года назад

Thanks for the memories. Lots of hikes as a kid totally denuding all huckleberries encountered.

@GhostOfJulesVerne 4 года назад

I remember eating these during recess in kindergarden. There were a bunch of huckleberry bushes in the playground at my elementary school. (near Seattle)

@diannaodman2847 4 года назад

they grow all over my area love the red ones so tender mild tasting , blue are intense and sour

@fourdoormafia 4 года назад

I live in Washington state and the red ones are all over the place. I find them in most of the woods or hiking trails and used to eat them all the time as a kid.

@firestormlivingsolutions 3 года назад

I was picking them as a kid in British Columbia... Your comments are spot on

@dutempsjadis1066 4 года назад

Thank you so much for the content, which I have been enjoying now for about a year from the Antipodes. We seem to be behind the curve on many things, including the current pandemic. We have the "luxury" for the moment of being able to observe the unfolding of events abroad. I hope that you have enough supplies (no, not talking tail timber!) on hand to take care of you, yours, and your feline charge just in case. All the best...

@Ditchhead 4 года назад

Oh wow, weird fruit explorer never had a huckleberry? Glad you finally got to try it.

@mandab.3180 4 года назад

i'd make these into a nice tart crumble. dang now i can't wait for blueberry season.

@carpy1252 Год назад

Thanks for the description, I just bought a plant of vaccinum ovata at a native plant shop in California and very excited to try the fruit. It is currently in flower.

@ericlivingston8027 4 года назад

If you are interested in blueberries try the pink popcorn blueberries. They look kind of like the pink lemonade blueberries you tried. I bought the pink lemonade blueberries after watching your video on it and needed another blueberry for maximum yield and found the pink popcorn blueberry was a thing as well.

@tt55k 3 года назад

I know of a small mountain valley full of those in southern Oregon , like you could pick a 5 gallon bucket in a couple hours .

@jawnkandy 4 года назад

What!!!!!!!! Never eaten true Huckleberry? Come to the Mt. Hood Huckleberry festival in August.

@WeirdExplorer 4 года назад

Maybe! What other fruit would one find at the festival? To budget trips, I try and go places where I can at least find 10 things to make videos on.

@MissouriCrookedBarnHomestead 4 года назад

Go to the top of Roan Mountain in East TN in late August to early September and you will get true huckleberries. They are native to Roan Mountain. Regular blueberries are typically ripe in early Spring. Huckleberries are stronger in flavor, make better pies, and are much smaller than blueberries.

@WeirdExplorer 4 года назад

Pro tip. Thanks! I'll try to remember that next time I'm out that way.

@allisonferguson6040 4 года назад

I was on a remote hillside in NF covered in wild interesting berries last fall. From the bear scat I saw it was well enjoyed that hillside. I have never seen such a carpet of various berries before. Thought of this channel and dearly wished I could identify the many different species. I have a few photos if I could figure out how to share them. Not technically adept unfortunately. I have grown garden huckleberry in the past. I believe it’s an annual and unrelated too these. Needs too be cooked too be eaten if I am remembering correctly. Thank you for your work. So fascinating.

@WeirdExplorer 4 года назад

Sounds like a fantasy land :)

@Exquailibur 4 года назад

those are common hedge plants where i live in WA state- good in pies

@peteralbert1485 4 года назад

Evergreen huckleberries grow under the redwoods in the Coast Ranges just north and south of San Francisco. I’d recruit my kids for an afternoon of berry picking in September: it takes a while to gather enough to cook with. And there is just no better pie than one made from these berries.

@brandon9172 3 года назад

How do you pick them? It seems to be pretty quick if you're wearing a rubber like glove, as you can just slide your hand down a branch and pick entire clusters of berries in seconds.

@ornokur6315 4 года назад

The great part about the red and evergreen huckleberries is they grow at low elevations. Most species in the west prefer higher elevations, so you usually have to hike up some mountains to get some.

@WeirdExplorer 4 года назад

Interesting

@garmancathotmailcom 4 года назад

I always thought cloud berries were neat. If you are ever in the Boreal forest you fight find some. I get the impression that they wouldn't keep well enough to sell or ship anywhere though.

@sdfkjgh 4 года назад

The night that I watched this was the same night that The Blacklist started its new season, so every time Jared mentions Raymond...

@GolosinasArgentinas 4 года назад

Nice!

@alecsorensen6101 4 года назад

Some people call these “shot berries” on account of the firm pop they make in your mouth when you eat them fresh. There’s another variety that are less glossy and more dusty blue look to them, however they’re not as firm and more mealy.

@WeirdExplorer 4 года назад

Never heard that, thanks for the info

@mrminer071166 4 года назад

This is the ONE video I'm more excited than Jared's upcoming Pro-Bidet video. 'Cuz V. ovatum WILL grow here in San DIego, and might be a good rootstock. But are the berries any good? Growers tend to call then "tasty," Lon Rombough says their dry, mealy, and not to be compared to edible varieties. I am JUST NOW getting around to ordering a V. deliciosum from Gig Harbor, to breed with V. padifolium (THANKS JARED!) and graft onto V. arboreum, the SE Sparkleberry. THEN we'd have a proper San Diego blueberry! If I can make it work, I'll call it the JAREDBERRY, LOL.

@HaydenX 4 года назад

I've had Mountain Huckleberries both fresh (when I was on vacation in Seattle in 2002) and in chocolate cordials (SLC Airport). I've also had the Tilamook Mountain Huckleberry ice cream, but the "huckleberry swirl" in it tasted wrong...it wasn't bad, but it pretty much just tasted like if someone were to take somewhat tart blueberry pancake syrup and add a few drops of blackberry extract to it, and it made me question how "real" the huckleberry swirl was.

@NoshabaKitchenZone 2 года назад

after watching this video I can say that this fruit have many healthy benefits

@tru7hhimself 4 года назад

i take it the "bilberry" you're talking about is the european blueberry (vaccinium myrtillus)? i know that one very well (and it's delicious! much more so than american blueberries), so i'm interested in how you compare it to other vaccinium species.

@stevenperry9762 4 года назад

The bush looks like the Sakal berry grows wild here, especially near the ocean.

@MG-dj7jv 3 года назад

Totally different looking bush

@MG-dj7jv 3 года назад

Just go to Google and you'll see yourself

@jasonsummit1885 4 года назад

We usually call them blue huck or wild blueberry. I've lived in Washington state my whole life.👍

@ei96byod 4 года назад

Interesting that you called the berry from Finland "bilberry". We would call that "blåbär" (blueberry) in Sweden, and we would call your larger version "American blueberry". I had to google "bilberry" since I have never heard that name before, and was suprised that it apparently has roots in the scandinavian languages. You learn something every day 🙂 By the way, did you try fresh and mascerated lingon when you were in Finland? Interested to know what you think of them.......or maybe you have a video coming about that? If you do, don't spoil it, and ignore my question 😄

@cactusmann5542 4 года назад

Speaking of blueberries, might i reccomend myrtillocactus fruit aka garambullo? When this ...everything...is over...

@WeirdExplorer 4 года назад

Oh those look interesting. Any tips on how to acquire them? Is it something that you would find at a market somewhere or you need to grow/forage yourself?

@cactusmann5542 4 года назад

@@WeirdExplorer Youd need to a find a guy that grows them. The plant is pretty common among growers, but its not hardy... Id recommend tropical/coastline florida or california. I know some people in australia have them as well. They are native to mexico, to quote: : This species is endemic to Mexico, where it is widespread in the central states. It occurs in Aguascalientes, México Federal District, Durango, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco, México State, Michoacán, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Morelos and Zacatecas. It is known from at least 267 localities and has an area of occupancy of 51,000 km2 I had the plant, but in my conditions it didnt grow much. I gave it away to a botanical garden... Otherwise, ask freely. I know of other cactus fruit

@censusgary 4 года назад

Oh, I need to see if I can grow this! My climate is not quite tropical, but it’s close enough that many tropical plants grow here.

@cactusmann5542 4 года назад

@@censusgary It has a hardiness limit. I think zone 10 b and above.. So ... completely frost free areas...

@censusgary 4 года назад

cactuS Mann : I’m in USDA Zone 9b, but nearly in 10a. So it might be worth a try. Many plants here are limited more by heat than by cold. There are also heat hardiness zones, but it’s very hard to get information on them, especially in regard to specific plants and their heat hardiness.

@raphlvlogs271 3 года назад

they are also closely related to the arbutus tree.

@dvstrr 4 года назад

make an episode on salmonberry!

@WeirdExplorer 4 года назад

Still need to find that one

@dvstrr 4 года назад

@@WeirdExplorer i live in an area with hella salmonberries, i can mail you some

@Magnum_Express 4 года назад

I've never heard of these until I recently played Red Dead Redemption 2.

@b.rileyjowett6925 4 года назад

If somebody finds me a fruit in the huckleberry family that doesn’t taste awesome then I will literally die of the shock

@WeirdExplorer 4 года назад

yeah they're all so good. Its surprising they're hard to find.

@haydenamaro 4 года назад

The texture is weird because it must have been prior frozen, you can only get fresh huckleberries for a few weeks in the late summer.

@WeirdExplorer 4 года назад

Nah, not frozen. I filmed this months ago.

@brandon9172 3 года назад

A few weeks?? Evergreen Huckleberries will stay on the branch while ripe, without rotting, for months. I've picked them in January before.

@MG-dj7jv 3 года назад

They're way better after the first frost and lose their mealiness

@MG-dj7jv 3 года назад

They lose a lot of the mealiness after the first frost. Not sure which ones you got

@andrewheather4970 4 года назад

Weird Explorer here is another future episode request as well as the bilberry this next one is my request could you do boysenberry on your weird fruit explorer episodes in a future episode

@strophish Год назад

Here in Washington we call it Bear Brush. Bring a pistol

@cyberash3000 4 года назад

are these like bilberrysm, i prefer bilberrys to blueberrys

@WeirdExplorer 4 года назад

Yeah more like a bilberry than a blueberry

@cyberash3000 4 года назад

@@WeirdExplorer crow berrys are good as well as bilberrys i i once at scouts spent a whole day eating crowberrys crawling across the floor till i felt sick i had eaten so many. lol

@davids.5083 4 года назад

Also, I'm not sure if you've ever used the foraging app, falling fruit? fallingfruit.org/ It might make for an interesting episode on NYC foraging.